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It's a presentation car from when Nissan introduced the R32 GT-R as a Group A race car for the Japanese Touring Championship to replace the R31 GTS-R (as kitted by Hasegawa in 2018).

Could have been the several hundred replies on FB telling them what huge idiots they are for doing another Mustang. It was a wonderful illustration of - People who'd bankrupt a model company within 6 months - with the angry wishlists and pitchforks gathered over there.

I'd suspect it's the same Boss 351 in both pictures. That's not a barn find Revell has, you have to apply "dust" to something shiny (like a car) to keep the scanner from picking up false positive reflections and so it only focuses on the markers.

Revell U.S. continues to develop projects, Germany approves (or denies) and provides the funding.

I'm not sure what the point (outside of some resin caster) would be to tool up steelies and the poverty caps that went with them (I had a '90 S-10 L as my first car in H.S.), as they weren't available on the mandatory higher trim levels that came with V-6 powered S-10s. You'd need to source out the 94HP boat anchor of noise that is an Iron Duke to begin the conversion back down to the base model rubber floor, vinyl seat, no A/C, no power anything - "It's basic transportation" - thing I had.

I wonder if it's just the angle of the illustration. Although the built model doesn't sit a whole lot higher.

Amusingly some people on a FB post from a major mail order place are complaining the box art is all wrong because it's not a big jacked up 4x4 like the '70 showed. I'm presuming those folks haven't actually opened their respective '70 kits to realize the F-250 Hi-Boy on the box art is NOT what comes in the kit.

Fujimi and Tamiya still have theirs, although neither has produced anything new with them in the past 18-24 months. But you have to have one active just to keep reissuing/restocking and selling existing kits.

Yup along with the '94 Camaro Convertible.

Got a shipment from HobbyEasy in Hong Kong after Customs decided to finally grant it passage. It was in Customs 2x longer than it took to ship over to the U.S. *shrug* Contained the 4 most current decal releases from S.K. Decals - As well as the other new release Alpha Models multimedia kit I hadn't acquired yet -

FWIW I don't believe any of those 1/20 scale kits ever saw a reissue after their initial runs by the 1990s Craft House Lindberg. Don't think the J. Lloyd folks ever did any of them, so they wouldn't have ever been at Ollies. Now Round2 has reissued a couple of them since they took possession of the Lindberg tools.

7.5 Million Dollar Model Buyout according to this week's Flyer. The stuff didn't officially go on sale til today, except that some stores don't care about that corporate sale starts on Thursday thing and just start pushing things out onto the floor as soon as the truck gets there.

Running a kit in a different color plastic is a cost with no benefit other than keeping a customer happy. AMT famously canned their plans for a '50 Oldsmobile because Wal*Mart decided it wouldn't sell well enough to justify ordering it. It took nearly 20 some odd years to get that kit out of Revell.

KA Models was preparing a rather over-the-top P/E upgrade set for the 356s at one point in late 2018. I had presumed that meant those were going to be reissued, because at that point - race car specific variants aside - Fujimi had reissued all of the base kits, and many of their spin-off versions (like the line of 911s, Countachs, etc) for all of the original Enthusiast Series. Several were in the Circuit Wolf Series, and a number were reissued in rather plain jane (almost anti-box art) boxes with no mention of the fact they were the ES kits.

Directly. http://www.racingdecals43.com

The three newest decal sets from Racing Decals 43.

Yes having the front clip be separate has allowed them of offer that 2001 spec version, along with an earlier pre-refresh 1998, and also the URAS Type R body kit variant.

LHS is getting the '66 Ford in its 4x4 variant today, for anyone wanting one of those the hunt is on.

Was informed by the LHS proprietor that he expects the Camaro & Vega a week from today on 9/1. So that wait is nearly over.

Riiiiight and there's still no actual mail service between Japan and the U.S. There's regular mail service between China/HK for Zips 40000 (really 40004 as that's the first assigned zip in that block) to 99999, and EMS for the rest of the U.S. All of that China/HK mail restart is within the past 30 days, and right now regardless of how your mail comes out of China and/or HK it gets put into quarantine when it gets here. Nothing like paying for Express Mail to have USPS/CBP sit on things for a week to make sure when they lick the boxes they don't get the Rona. Mail from Europe is still running at a trickle because WE as a country can't stop licking each other (apparently) and since we're banned from traveling over there, there's still very little capacity for mail in either direction. My last two shipments from a decal vendor in Madrid took 49 and 42 days respectively on what is normally a 8-13 day transit. So sure Asia and Europe are back up and running, but until you try to actually obtain that stuff HERE it's all rather meaningless when comparing the difficulties of getting test shots, press advances, containers of produced kits, and all of the like to the U.S. I just paid $106 to FedEx some models out of Japan, because other than DHL or UPS that's the only way they're getting here without putting them on a boat - which in itself, aside from being uninsurable as far as Japan Post is concerned, takes up to two months just to make the transit across the Pacific because there isn't nearly the shipping capacity on the water as there was at the beginning of the year. Another way to consider things - when WingNut Wings went belly up a few months ago, and almost instantly Meng announced it was releasing the 1/32 Fokker D1Triplane, the Interwebs lost their collective minds. There was so much "OMG! CHINA STOLE THE MOLDS AND GAVE THEM TO MENG!!!" Whoooooops turns out Meng had been tooling all of the WnW kits this whole time, Meng also offers contract tooling & production services to a wide variety of other companies. WnW didn't pay their tooling bills because they never turned a single penny in profit (Peter Jackson proving you make money in modeling by having an even larger amount of money to start with) Now if your very profitable model factory closed down because of COVID, and then when it got started again, what are you prioritizing? Your in-house brand and "private label" native country kits? Or some people 12 hours behind in time zones who don't even speak the same language as you do and certainly aren't about to come across town and check on things?

Well despite some people's view that COVID has no effect on anything, it has in fact put a big chunk of hobby related things 6 months behind. China was shut down for nearly 3 months itself, and then by the time they got back up and running, we shut the U.S...or well most of it...down for several months ourselves. I'm still not sure there's anyone working at Tamiya USA, but for months now you couldn't get replacement parts because nobody was in the office to process the requests. The current batch of Revell kits (62 Impala, 71 GTX, 78 El Camino) that are now supposed to come out this month (and they're rapidly running out of month) were originally scheduled for May...after being delayed by the Rona. Have to remember Revell is just leasing time slots (for lack of a better term) at an injection molding facility, which of course is itself 3 months behind running whatever else keeps their lights on and doors open. There's only so many hours in a day...

Someone just sold a set for $1899.99 - not list, SOLD. So yes his is substantially too high, but your price is 3x too low...

FWIW if you dig backwards into Hobby Search far enough you'll find the listing for the most recent reissue of the Monogram '69 Super Bee, and they had the scale right that time...just sayin'... ?

Couple of Alpha Models items, have more in the HLJ shipment these rode in to photograph yet. Fun fact if you ship 3 of these along with your normal monthly intake of fresh Japanese styrene you'll trip the CBP self-importation declaration limit ($800). Also two new sheets of decals from a new Hong Kong based decal provider - LB Productions for a couple of Australian fielded Audi R8 GT3s. "Commercial grade" decals, not home brewed junk.

I believe they created a 3D print of it to gauge interest, but for whatever reason the actual resin transkit was never done.